Canyon Tours

Canyon Tours runs tourists on raft trips down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. It was founded by Willie Stein and was run by Louise Buck for many years. It is now run by her widower, Al Buck who has been a boatman for years.

A typical Canyon Tours trip runs 18 days each run and they will have more than one tour running each week during the season. Each tour will have a trip leader and an experienced hand on each raft. Dave and Mary Wells have chosen to operate their team with Dave and Mary as co-trip-leaders. There can also be extra helpers, called swampers.

Employees run a hectic schedule, having very little time off between trips, but then having an extended time off out of season, during the winter.

Another regular employee was Jeff Pleva, the bus driver. Less regular, Ray Reynolds filled in as a substitute bus driver and "knows the drill"CF16 while Majorie Pleva, Jeff's wife, watched the store at least once.